EDUCATION
BA, Wheaton College (Massachusetts) 1969
Germain School of Photography, New York 1971
PRIZES
One of five winners of US Department of the Interior Photography Prize 1971. I took photographs for the Department of the Interior for nine months, supervised by Tom Orr, then Photo Editor of Newsweek, for a permanent display at the Statue of Liberty. The photos were exhibited until the restoration of the Statue in the 1980s.
EXHIBITS
upcoming The Century Association, solo show opening February 17, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago permanent collection
Church of the Heavenly Rest, Retrospective, 2019
The Century Association, Sculptors and Photographers show 2005 to present
Atlantic Gallery, New York, New York, solo show 2005
United Nations Population Fund’s Family of Woman show, Pacific Design Center, LA 2005
Positive Focus - Body of Work 2004, New York, group show 2004
Portrait Show, The Century Association, New York 2004
Photography 2004, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York 2004
Atlantic Gallery, New York, New York, group shows 2004, 2005 and 2006
World Financial Center, Courtyard Gallery Festival of Mongolia, group show 2001
Modernage, solo show 1975
Nikon House, group show 1972
INTERNATIONAL WORK
Algeria, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, India, Iran, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam
The Girls of Freetown, annual portraits of 4 girls in the village of Freetown, Antigua
Portraits of Authors, England 1997 to present
CURRENT PROJECT
Since 2006 I have been photographing and interviewing women of different cultures. Portraits include women from Algeria, Britain, France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Myanmar, the Caribbean Islands and the USA. Each portrait is accompanied by a description, in the subject’s own voice, of her life journey and what “the second half” has meant/will hopefully mean for her. The book will be published by Brandeis University Press in March 2022. It will be distributed by The University of Chicago Press in the USA, and will be accompanied by photographic exhibits. It will be published as a trade book, but will also be used in classrooms for Gender and Women’s Studies. Erica Jong has written the foreword.
While many of the women are well known, perhaps successful in a career, others have never had the luxury or inclination to choose a career. Included in the book are women of different socio-economic backgrounds and different religions. They range from age 55 to 107 and represent cultures from the most sophisticated to indigenous. Each has a story to tell that will be instructive to younger women.